Andrew Couts

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security & investigations editor at WIRED | please send dog pics. leaks are up to you.

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New fresh hell just dropped: "OpenAI specifically asked for interview memos, reporters' notes, records of files and other materials cited in NYT articles. It stated that it was not looking for the identities of the paper's sources." www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

ChatGPT's Owner Asks For Proof That 'New York Times' Articles Are Original. Here's the Media Company's Response.www.entrepreneur.com The "New York Times" sued OpenAI less than a year ago over copyright infringement. Now, the ChatGPT owner is making a request the "NYT" calls "harassment and retaliation."

Older people, too! If my MIL had an app that could tie her shoes, it'd significantly improve her life.

If you're in the NY area, a bunch of websites may be inaccessible, including NYTimes, Etsy, Target, and others. Likely due to a server outage at Fastly, an intermediary in the internet ecosystem: www.fastlystatus.com/incident/376...

someone at @nytimes.com is having a bad day

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This article is about the ADL’s recent harassment of a non binary Black activist (of course) but also details the ADL’s troubling history of anti-Black surveillance dating back to their “concerns” about the ANC and a fellow named Mandela.

Internal memo reveals Anti-Defamation League surveillance of leftwing activist

Internal memo reveals Anti-Defamation League surveillance of leftwing activistwww.theguardian.com Self-styled anti-hate group tracked Black organizer who opposed links between US police and Israeli military

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“At the hearing, the Individual testified that he still was not sure who he had been talking to online but when asked did not rule out that it could have been the actress." gizmodo.com/man-loses-nu...

Man Loses Nuclear Security Clearance After Getting Catfished by a Celebrity Memegizmodo.com The man was arrested after embezzling more than $3,000 from a non-profit and getting into a physical fight with this sons.

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Russia attacks a children's hospital. open.substack.com/pub/countero... #ukrainianview @timkmak.bsky.social

NEWSFLASH: Children hospital hit by brazen Russian daylight attacksopen.substack.com Just a week ago we profiled the work of the Okhmatdyt Children's Clinic in Kyiv. Today, it was hit. We rushed to the scene to report.

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Back in WIRED for the first time in a while, where I spoke to Jonas Jödicke about his journey from the mass counterfeiting of his art to fighting back, and what it might mean a current art landscape dominated by AI. Big thanks to @waterslicer.bsky.social for bearing with me while this came together.

His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Homewww.wired.com When his galaxy wolf illustration was stolen by countless online stores, artist Jonas Jödicke decided to fight back.

Plant mint in annoying-to-mow spot, watch mint take over annoying-to-mow spot, start making minty recipes with all that goddamn mint, realize you can make a mint julep, spit bits of mint into napkin, mow down mint

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can we put some other ppl as the face of online privacy instead of snowden and assange

Not to interrupt, but Canada is currently leading Venezuela 1-0 less than 30 mins in

me to camera left: as long as I give it my all, that’s what it’s all about. *crashes golf cart into school bus*

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Yesterday was pub day for the UK edition of Tracers in the Dark, with a new title: Lords of Crypto Crime. To all the UK and Aussie folks bugging me about this for the last 18 months, thank you for your patience and hope you enjoy! www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Crypto...

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Happy fourth

i have decided, on this, our Independence Day, to ignore all of reality beyond the existence of this box turtle who wandered into our yard

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SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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Wildly unsure if this question connects with anyone at all: How has your calculus for what counts as FUD content changed in the past, say, two weeks? Past eight years?

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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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Better start acting like we're in a constitutional crisis, because we're deep in it.

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*its the same picture gif*

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

NEW: Google is putting AI-creates spam articles above original reporting in Google News search results, reports WIRED's Reece Rogers. www.wired.com/story/google...

Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Resultswww.wired.com Google adjusted its policies to target AI spam earlier this year, but plagiarizing content still comes up higher in search results months later—and SEO experts aren’t sure why.

It is a universal truth: Everyone will text you on your busiest days.

One of those days where I'm getting a text every time I try to write a sentence. Not complaining! There are much harder jobs than reporting, I like doing it. But I never participate in those inbox/text shame games... you are simply dive-bombed all day by stuff you have to triage bc there's no story.

nail-biter!

if anyone is bored and wants something to watch for like 10 mins, turn on the England v Slovakia game.

protect your kitties from fireworks at all cost

And cats. If kitties like hiding out in closets or wherever to avoid the noises, give them a nice cozy box and blanket to snuggle in there.

it’s fireworks season y’all. keep your pups tight.

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WIRED doing absolute yeoman's work on infringements by the AI industry. Hope it starts to get some traction and the lawsuits pay dividends to the authors, artists, and citizens whose data has been scraped and ingested into the maw.

NEW: A WIRED investigation found that Quora’s gen AI product Poe will spit out entire paywalled articles as an HTML file that’s basically like a PDF, which a legal expert says is clear copyright infringement. @timmarchman.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/quora-...

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demandwww.wired.com WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

we’re working outside today